New ABIM MOC Process: Asking for Physician Input

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is setting a new process for internists and subspecialists on various aspects of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) assessments. These changes come in connection with the Assessment 2020 Task Force report, and will align with ABIM's continuous improvement efforts. As the MOC program continues to evolve, the goal is to ensure that the clinical content is relevant to a broad cross-section of physicians. As such, ABIM board certified physicians can provide input on what topics are most important and most often seen in practice, and some physicians will even be able to participate in the process to set MOC exam minimum passing scores. In 2015, physicians across the full range of internal medicine practice reviewed the Internal Medicine MOC exam blueprint and rated exam topic areas by relative frequency and importance in practice. The input from those physicians, taken together with data from national databases, helped create updates to the Fall 2015 blueprint aimed at enhancing the assessment's effectiveness at evaluating whether a certified general internist has maintained competence and currency in the knowledge and judgment required for practice. Now, ABIM is expanding the blueprint review process to subspecialists, by allowing ABIM Board Certified physicians in several subspecialties to provide feedback on their MOC exam blueprints about relative frequency and importance in practice. Their input will be used to update the c...
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